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by ballenf 5y ago
Salaries for junior devs in the US start at 60k in some areas of the US.
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by ballenf 5y ago
But isn't the idea of a "utility" that it operates as a unique type of company that prices its services in sync with costs? In fact many utilities are explicitly cooperatives. To me, "privatized utility" is an oxymo
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by ballenf 5y ago
I want to hear about everything that my friends want to tell me so long as it requires a slight modicum of effort on their part. Facebook turned everyone into bulk junk mailers. They pay the postage and then slap ads on the flyers everyone
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by ballenf 5y ago
If possible, please bind to the numpad "enter" key for submitting an answer on Macs.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Maybe too close? I got 4 with no zooming and just centering the camera on one with the others also in frame.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I would have advised him to stay quiet about this. Not out of fear of the North Koreans, but out of fear of our own security agencies seeing the activity as interfering in international relations. Also the vagueness of our hacking laws prob
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by ballenf 5y ago
Pick the top sci-fi movie rating-wise from every year, going back 50 years. Then rank them. Would the past be over-represented? My hunch is yes, but I think it's a fair metric.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Self-driving cars need to bend the rules enough to be attractive to a critical mass of purchasers. Then regulations will require strict adherence to laws. Then owners of these cars will be numerous enough to push for regulatory reform. If a
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by ballenf 5y ago
I would expect them to eventually be pressured into shortening the drying cycle to hit some green goal, making you dry more dishes by hand.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Could you listen the audio to detect the cargo load? At least within categories (light/middle/heavy)?
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by ballenf 5y ago
Maybe it's just where I live, but I've never heard the "flu shot" called a vaccine.
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by ballenf 5y ago
But we don't do it with every other vaccine. There are vaccines targeted at specific groups and vaccines that are optional regardless of group. And there are zero mandatory vaccines that require 6-month boosters for life. And zero mand
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by ballenf 5y ago
Regulation to require jailbreaking any device that reaches EOL or support would be welcome.
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by ballenf 5y ago
> If they wanted to maintain a policy of ignoring IP, etc., they they should not have joined the WTO and signed conventions that hold them to obligations. Entering into agreements with another party that doesn't share your values or
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by ballenf 5y ago
Maybe just coincidence but I'm increasingly encountering non-software folks successfully building things in the AWS console that become business critical. I don't think it's much harder than building a super complex Excel she
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by ballenf 5y ago
> Software should not be free (in cost), yet always receive new features and updates. That sounds like an extension of "you wouldn't download a car".
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by ballenf 5y ago
My version of that dream has me unsure where the class meets (I have a syllabus but can't decipher it somehow) and not sure if I have the right textbook for the class. I keep trying different classrooms but they all just allow me to en
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by ballenf 5y ago
The Vsauce originals were/are really good. Only decent Original series I could find when I first got Red.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Looks like they're aiming to become a cloud-based active directory, abstracting away authentication to a higher level single identity. They want to become something like a Passport for users across the web. If they can do this, it will
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by ballenf 5y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think traditional media is keeping up with the dozens (or maybe hundreds) of podcasts and YouTube channels that bring in hard experts. The experts traditional media typically find are f
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by ballenf 5y ago
Feels like a bad time to bite the hand that was willing to defend a precedent that serves everyone (if publishers were successful there, they'd have a much easier time arguing in other countries for "harmonization" legislatio
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by ballenf 5y ago
I wonder if we'll see a backlash against "plagiarism" being considered cheating? Parallel in some ways to using a calculator.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Why did you consider tricking the plagiarism detection engine a hack? Seems more like just one of probably several or even dozens of ways to trick the detection engine. While I applaud your work and clearly think the channel suspension is B
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by ballenf 5y ago
There's an unintuitive incentive to refrain from gaining too much knowledge of all of an org's systems. Being the support person across teams potentially lowers your value to your immediate leads since you get pulled away so much.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Being willing and able to lie for the owner is the ultimate test of ownership.
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by ballenf 5y ago
And Blu-Ray Live which makes your player yet another surveillance tool, if it has internet access. And if it doesn't you lose some of the features of the disc advertised on the box.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I don't think the article supports that position. Every new tech was evaluated by them based on the experience of people within their community who were approved early adopters. I didn't see any argument of "look what that te
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by ballenf 5y ago
You have to factor in forced tip-outs which didn't exist all that long ago.
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by ballenf 5y ago
> You might tell your low tipping friend they’re being rude What constitutes rudeness is evidently more variable than I realized. Even among friends.
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by ballenf 5y ago
As a complete outsider, what I don't understand is why there's so much NIMBYism in CA and such strong (and laudable) support for easy immigration. If not for immigration the US population growth would have slowed to a crawl and th

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